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Kenya Water Resources Management Authority workers build a water quality monitoring station on the Mwache River.Photo courtesy of the Mwache Dam Project

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April 22, 2019

Designing water infrastructure for climate uncertainty

A new method identifies opportunities to learn and adapt to changing temperature and precipitation trends.

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April 22, 2019

Letter regarding MIT's upcoming climate change symposia

Audrey Buyrn (left) congratulates Raffaele Ferrari on his MIT School of Science Ally of Nature Fund Award.Photo: Lauren Hinkel

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April 19, 2019

A steward for ocean research and climate health

Raffaele Ferrari honored with School of Science Ally of Nature Fund Award.

RoCycle can detect if an object is paper, metal, or plastic. CSAIL researchers say that such a system could potentially help enable the convenience of single-stream recycling with lower contamination rates that confirm to China's new recyclin...

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April 16, 2019

Robots that can sort recycling

CSAIL’s "RoCycle" system uses in-hand sensors to detect if an object is paper, metal or plastic.

The economist Lord Nicholas Stern delivers the MIT Undergraduate Economics Association’s annual lecture, on climate economics, at MIT on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.Image: Chelsea Turner

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April 11, 2019

Climate expert emphasizes the fierce urgency of now

In MIT talk, Lord Nicholas Stern calls the next 20 years “absolutely defining” for society.

$Heavy trucks such as these 18-wheelers contribute a significant fraction of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. MIT researchers say these emissions could be drastically reduced by using flex-fuel plug-in hybrid powertrains instead of diesel engines.$

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April 9, 2019

Engineers develop concept for hybrid heavy-duty trucks

Long-haul trucks with electric motors combined with gas-alcohol engines could slash pollution levels and greenhouse gases.

MIT researchers used these manganese oxide nanoparticles to catalyze the breakdown of water and the subsequent incorporation of oxygen into useful compounds called epoxides. Courtesy of the researchers

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April 9, 2019

Shrinking the carbon footprint of a chemical in everyday objects

New method for synthesizing the epoxides found in plastics, textiles, and pharmaceuticals could be powered by electricity.

Janus emulsion droplets are captured in the process of changing form in response to the presence of contamination by a food pathogen in a lab setting. The emulsions can be viewed by the naked eye and, with the aid of a handheld sensor currently i...

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April 9, 2019

MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

An affordable, easy-to-use handheld sensor, soon to enter the market, can indicate the presence of bacterial contaminants in food in seconds.

Steven Lacey, host of The Energy Gang, leads a live taping of the show during the MIT Energy Conference.Image: Cherry Tree Photography

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April 9, 2019

MIT Energy Conference explores changes to the grid in coming decades

Student-run event spans energy policy, carbon pricing, storage technologies, and the rise of renewables.